Trans+ History Week

Neigh, neigh and thrice neigh.

I see Princess Anne is riding Prince Philip, who was identifying as a horse that day.

I wish I were not quoting something that someone has claimed but…

…gay and trans! Turing was one of the first Gay men to go on estrogen

That's quite the take on DES punitive castration therapy as an alternative to imprisonment for the then crime of homosexuality. Discussed here with a good synopsis of Turing's remarkable life and achievements.

https://williamaferguson.substack.com/p/trans-out-your-dead?s=r

Robert the Bruce: actually called Fiona

She is routinely misrepresented (and misnamed) as a Scottish man; but her roots are actually 100% Australian, where she always identified throughout her entire life as Roberta the Sheila.

WickedSerious · Yesterday 21:23

+ + 'the challenges of researching and writing transgender history'. + +

I can imagine,it must be painful dragging all that bilge out of your arse.

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Academic usage. No…of all the things you could call Stonewall, I don’t think it would be fair to call them ‘academic’.

Think Butler's entire career is founded on exactly this. An entire cadre of academics, wading through acres of impenetrable bollocks give up wondering what that nonsense was about and take the easy option of thinking its way over my head so it must be brilliant (much like your average maths student confronted with quantum physics)

Who funds this bollocks “research” and who is (voluntarily) reading it??

No one reads it.

This is the Emperor’s New Clothes.

There’s a load of illogical densely-worded bullshit that tires brains and people tasked with reading it clearly give up half way and wave it through.

The ‘where’ in the title refers simultaneously to the geographical range of transgender history, the issues around subsuming different cultural practices of gender and sexuality into ‘transgender’ history, and the direction the field is going In.

Sounds like a liminal place where unicorns eat rainbows and sleep on clouds when they're not being tamed by maidens and frolicking with Teletubbies.

Henry VIII is so clearly a woman it’s a joke - jewelled knickerbockers and a spangled codpiece to better display her lady-penis.

Funny how it’s always women’s histories traduced, isn’t it.

Hmm. Laughed quite a bit at this thread. But I agree the utterly tone deaf, misogynistic flat-out lies contained the original Stonewall article beggars belief.

What kind of mentally stunted people have they got working for them who think this level of lazy bullshit is a day’s work?? Stonewall really need to either pack up their tent and close or fuck off to Qatar or somewhere that really needs some advocacy on gay rights.

I must say the forthcoming event with Dr Onni Gust looks very unedifying. My quick scan of Onni’s previous works revealed a word salad of publications attempting to connect every conceivable topic to gender and identity - by any means possible. Who funds this bollocks “research” and who is (voluntarily) reading it??

Pope Joan.

There’s been some interesting popey goings on over the years - Pope Formosus was put on trial for alleged bad poping, despite having been dead for a few months.

Anyway, you’ve reminded me:

save your sympathy for that twat doing a Phd in trans archeology. That must be a very long afternoon, poor lamb.

'the challenges of researching and writing transgender history'.

I can imagine,it must be painful dragging all that bilge out of your arse.

Why are you deadnaming Culler, Ellis and Acton Bell?
Don't you be starting on the George's Sand and Elliot.

BCE/CE are pretty standard academic usage now I thought - but that does kinda require not mixing them up and getting the actual dates right.

Ignorant idiots - such gross disrespect of womens history, they can't even bother to apply a bit of basic knowledge or proofreading while stealing it.

On the subject of Trans History, there's an online talk hosted by UCL this Monday (13 May) by Dr Onni Gust from University of Nottingham.

Trans history: What? Why? Where?

Transgender history has developed at an incredible pace over the last five years with new research illustrating gender diversity across all time periods and regions. This seminar discusses the emergence of the field of transgender history, the challenges of researching and writing transgender history and why it is important. The ‘where’ in the title refers simultaneously to the geographical range of transgender history, the issues around subsuming different cultural practices of gender and sexuality into ‘transgender’ history, and the direction the field is going In.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/onni-gust-in-person-livestreamed-event-tickets-891878752357?aff=oddtdtcreator

Ooh,great name for a band.

You forgot Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte, @MillOnTheGoss, who were clearly the transwoman alters of Branwell Bronte.

She did. This was one of the accusations against her. She also slept among the men she was leading and wore armour.